If Black Panther isn't the Marvel movie you're most amped up to see, you're probably either a bigot or you have terrible taste in movies. The trailers are amazeballs. And, finally, after years of there not being very many Black Panther collections available, now most of his solo adventures are in circulation. So I'm cobbling together a five season Netflixization of a Black Panther chronology.

The lists will seem shorter than some of my other "In Five Seasons" or "In Ten Seasons" because most of the Black Panther collections are three to four times the length of usual Marvel trades, and have the price point that reflects that difference. Also, unlike previous lists, this will contain Back Door Pilot episodes, the way DC television presented The Flash in an episode of "Arrow" before he got his own series, or the way Marvel/Netflix put The Punisher in "Daredevil" before he got his own series.

What I hope will be the most successful Marvel-based movie character debuts in the comic home of the least successful Marvel-based franchise. And it doesn't seem promising that mid-1960s Stan Lee is the creator of the character. There are pages that, unsurprisingly, don't age well. But it does seem that The Thing, who says the most problematic shit, is being shown as out-of-touch when he refers to The Black Panther (who he hasn't met yet) as "a refugee from a Tarzan movie". The fun part of the story is that The Black Panther totally annihilates The Fantastic Four using technology, strategy, and brilliant pre-meditation. But he's never treated as a villain. He makes it clear as soon as the fight is over that he was prepping for a bigger fight, and The Fantastic Four immediately ally with him. All in all, it's a fun story. I have a difficult time with silver age books in general, and Stan Lee's books, in particular, but this one repeatedly acknowledged when it was being "cornball", and T'Challa really shows up Reed Richards and his whole team.

Episode 1: Zemoted(collected in Captain America Epic Collection: The Coming Of The Falcon)

The first really cool run of Black Panther as a solo book refers to the fact that T'Challa has been away from Wakanda for a while, so we're going to start the series with his appearances in other Marvel books. In this story, T'Challa is still in Wakanda but is under attack and sends one of his amazing ships to New York to request the help of Captain America. Well, it turns out the villain is Baron Von Zemo, one of those Nazi shitheads who helped get Cap's partner killed (or sent to Russia to become The Winter Soldier, if you're going to be all modern about it), and got Cap, himself, frozen into a giant ice cube. So cap gets his revenge with Panther's help, and then T'Challa moves into The Avengers mansion to become a member of Marvel's Grade A superhero team.

Serial 1: The Avenger(3 episodes, collected in The Avengers Epic Collection: The Masters Of Evil, and The Avengers Epic Collection: Behold The Vision!)written by Roy Thomas, art by John Buscema and Gene Colan

T'Challah and the superbros fight crime around the world. It's utter madness with a ton of characters including pretty much all the Avengers from the movies, the classic X-Men lineup, Kang, The Masters Of Evil, The Sons Of The Serpent, even Ultron debuts in this series. And The Black Panther, while not the central character is very important to the outcomes.

If you are a continuity hound, you can check out Daredevil #69, which features The Black Panther helping Matt Murdock fight the first ever incarnation of The Thunderbolts, but it's problematic, and not a very long story, so you might want to skip it. He also shows up in Astonishing Tales to fight against Doctor Doom, but that's never been collected outside of the black and white Essential series.

While T'Challa was out in New York, one of the victims of Klaw's attack (from the backdoor pilot episode) has been sowing seeds of discord in Wakanda. Now The Black Panther must battle Killmonger and his many, many, many allies, including Venomm (a snake handler, not the Spider-Man villain), a white gorilla, a pack of wolves, and all sorts of others. This series is one of the earliest examples of epic storytelling in comics. It feels like the best of the dark 1980s superhero comics, but it came out in the mid-70s.

Yea. That Klan. It's sad to think that this book would once again be considered controversial, but in the 70s, editorial didn't know if it was okay to have a black superhero battling the Ku Klux Klan. T'Challa goes back to America, along with his girlfriend (whom the Wakandans were happy to see leave) where he gets into a battle with some of America's biggest embarrassments.

From a realistic fight against racists, to a Really Weird battle against a bizarre set of villains in a quest for...Solomon's Frog? This is almost too weird to describe, and The Black Panther isn't as fleshed out as he is in better books, but it's a wacky ride with really cool Kirby art.

Every time T'Challa leaves Wakanda, somebody attempts a coup. This time, it's a family member, and we meet a great deal of T'Challa's family, some of whom will be major characters in the coming seasons. We also see, when T'Challa is otherwise engaged, a group of Wakandans who don their own costumes to protect the land in his absence.

One of T'Challa's cousins is kidnapped by a mutated scientist named Kiber The Cruel, who first takes her, then The Black Panther, himself, to Kiber Island (that's right, he has his own island, what?) where they, naturally, must battle his minions in order to survive, and escape (in that order). This episode gets less fun as it goes on, as Kirby abandoned the story before it was over, and it got picked up by Marvel's most notorious editor, and an artist who was talented, but was not Jack Kirby.

This is a strange episode to end the season on, but it's a sequel to Panther's Rage, and it is entirely unlike anything that's going to happen in previous seasons. It even has a bit of the Kirby Weird factor, as it involves a sometimes invisible pteranodon man. But there's also drugs, there's T'Challa's mother dealing with her time as a sex slave, and there's T'Challa thinking of proposing to his girlfriend (who Wakandans still aren't super into). I had to read this online because it hasn't been collected, and I don't own the issues. It's not nearly as good as Panther's Rage or Black Panther Vs. The KKK, and while it has some problematic aspects, it's not terrible.

The Avengers franchise is what made Marvel Studios the completely dominant force in comic based entertainment. The way they streamlined Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and other characters into an expansive universe that also includes television shows like Daredevil and Agents Of SHIELD is something that has never been achieved before in motion picture entertainment.

The Avengers continuity, even without including the individual characters is supremely daunting. So, I’ve put together a chronology of some of the best Avengers related books that are currently or were recently available in collected editions (the recently available are still around for pretty cheap on various online outlets and in bookstores) into ten TV seasons.

​Season 1 isn’t just The First Team of Avengers. I’m not a big fan of silver age books, so I want to get at least into the 80s by the end of the first season, so be prepared for a lot of team shake ups pretty quickly, which is actually in the spirit of the Avengers book, whose entire lineup changed three times in the first five issues.

Did the photographer just say ‘Cap puts the ass in assemble?’art by George Perez

The team forms to fight off the threat of Loki. Then the team nearly breaks up. They go through an assortment of villains and team rosters, as well as crossing over with nearly every other property Marvel had at the time, including The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and Spider-Man.

The Fantastic Four once battled a race of shape-shifting aliens called The Skrulls. When they defeated them, Reed Richards turned three of them into cows. After the Avengers deal with the possible threat of Captain Marvel’s race, The Kree, Vision is attacked by the Skrull cows. Featuring The Fantastic Four, Annihilus, and the subject of a certain android Ant-Man created called Ultron gets breached.

There’s a new star in the sky and it’s going to mess up the Avengers, handing them their first of many deaths (not an Avenger most people can name, though). But now time traveling villains, including the rascally Kang have descended on their time to take out The Avengers. Plus, more damned Skrulls, and Vision and The Scarlet Witch get married?

Celestial Madonna. 1 episode

Episode 6: Avengers The Serpent Crown(written by Steve Engleheart, art by George Perez)

The Avengers battle The Squadron Supreme, some Old West themed Marvel villains and Kang. GO AWAY KANG, YOU’RE TAKING UP A LOT OF SPACE HERE. This is a fun and odd team of Avengers that includes Beast (usually an X-Men) and Patsy Walker, Hellcat.

Tony Stark thought he’d been keeping a tight wrap on his technology, but when AIM starts crime sprees using Stark Tech, Iron Man decides to go at them full throttle. He even lets Jim Rhodes in on the Iron Man action. Nick Fury, Captain America and a variety of Avengers get in on Stark’s quest to take AIM down.

Armor Wars. 1 episode

Episode 8: Iron Man Demon In A Bottle(written by Dave Michelinie, art by Bob Layton and John Romita JR)In order to deal with his constant state of stress, Mr. Stark has developed quite the alcohol dependency. Ant-Man, Nick Fury, and a cast of Avengers try and help him with that. But he doesn’t need their help. Well, until he might have accidentally killed a UN Ambassador.

Demon In A Bottle. 1 episode

Episode 9: Avengers Vision & The Scarlet Witch A Year In The Life(written by Steve Engleheart, art by Richard Howell and Al Milgrom)

The Avengers power couple “retires” to New Jersey to start a family. But their own families, including Magneto, Quicksilver, and Ultron are less than supportive, as Quicksilver’s own marriage to the Inhumans’ Crystal is a huge mess. You know what will solve their problems? Having kids. That certainly isn’t going to cause massive problems down the line. Featuring a slew of Avenger and non-Avenger guest stars, and Dr. Strange actually acts as a doctor for once.

Family Matters. 1 episode

Serial 3: Avengers The Legacy Of Thanos(written by Roger Stern and John Byrne, art by John Buscema and John Byrne)

The new Captain Marvel investigates Thanos’s abandoned ship, she gets a bit of a surprise. Nebula plots to destroy The Skrulls, and then sets her sites on Earth. All this while Captain America and the rest of The Avengers battle Terminus in The Savage Land (a terrible place to battle when there are Skrulls around). Plus, The Fantastic Four, Firelord, and The Beyonder.

The Legacy Of Thanos. 2 episodes

Serial 4: Avengers West Coast Vision Quest, Avengers West Coast Darker Than Scarlet(written by John Byrne, Roy and Dann Thomas, art by John Byrne and Paul Ryan)

It’s a little weird that a magical mutant and an android had children together, right? So when a series of nannies mention that occasionally the children just disappear, The West Coast Avengers start to think that something must be up. And what’s up is not Wanda’s sanity.

Darker Than Scarlet. 2 episodes

Serial 4: The Infinity Gauntlet(written by Jim Starlin, art by George Perez and Ron Lim)

Thanos takes a play at complete control of The Universe, tracking down all the gems that, when assembled, power The Infinity Gauntlet, and it’s up to all of The Avengers and, really, all the Marvel heroes to come together and stop him before he ends all of creation itself.

The Infinity Gauntlet. 2 episodes

Serial 5: Infinity War(written by Jim Starlin, art by Ron Lim, Tom Raney, Angel Medina, and Shawn McManus)​Adam Warlock may have helped keep Thanos from ascending during Infinity Gauntlet, but what if he’s not entirely a hero, himself? His evil half, Magus, surfaces and takes possession of The Gauntlet. Once again, all the Marvel superheroes in the universe have to band together to save the universe from a mad tyrant. And this time, their salvation might be…Thanos?

While Infinity War was going on, the evil side of Adam Warlock (Magus) expelled his own good side, creating The Goddess. Her agenda appears to be saving the universe from evil? So why has she assembled an army of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes? Thanos, The Silver Surfer, Professor X, and a cabal of heroes left behind must save the universe from…good?